‘Coup!’ Evaluation: Peter Sarsgaard Leads a Jaunty Class-Conflict Comedy

That perky exclamation level units the tone for “Coup!,” a narrative of homicide, class battle, One % entitlement and a worldwide pandemic that nonetheless unfolds with all of the keen, scrappy power of an off-Broadway musical, minus a lot of the songs. The pandemic in query just isn’t the one you’re pondering of — Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman’s puckish comedian thriller unfolds in opposition to the dire backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu — but it surely additionally kind of is, as its examine of rich exceptionalism in a time of nationwide disaster is clearly meant to chime…